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The conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action programs at two colleges were unconstitutional on Thursday, upending decades of progress. The decisions were made in two cases involving programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University, which brought swift and excoriating dissent from Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor among others who voiced their opinions online.

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Affirmative action, a set of policies that came into view under the presidency of John F. Kennedy, in recent times has come under attack by opponents of the practice who call it a form of reverse racism. While the related policies were enacted to provide a fair opportunity to all, the Justice Department is gathering […]

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Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has made it a career mission to oppose hot-button topics such as abortion mixed with his conquest to preach that the death penalty is is constitutional.

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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions Tuesday morning, undermining efforts at major institutions in the state to increase diversity. The ban, also known as Proposal 2, was passed in 2006 by Michigan voters which makes it illegal for state schools to use race in the admissions and hiring […]

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Racial diversity in college may be a thing of the past if a 2003 Supreme Court ruling is overturned. That year, the Grutter v. Bollinger case made it so that college admission officials were to consider race before admitting students to a school or university. A new challenge to the ruling is underway, with a […]